Can-opener.



. PATENTED JAN. 21, 1908. 0. F. MQGRARY.

CAN OPENER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 5, 1907.

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dersonville,

PATENT OFFICE.

OTlS FRED McCRAR-Y, OF HENDERSONVILLE, NORTH. CAROLINA.

CAN-GPENEB.

Application filed June 5,

Specification of Letters Patent.

?etented Jan. 21, 1908.

1907. Serial No. 377.461.

all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, OTIS FEED hlCC-RARY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Henin the county of Henderson, Ste-tent North )eroline, have invented oer tein new and useful Improvements in Can-- Openers; and I do hereby declare the follow ing toliea full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in. the art to which it apperteins to 1nelte\ 2lnd use the same.

Thisuhvention relates to can openers and has f is object to provide it simple device of th scharacter which is applicable for use on emf-size of can end which will yet not I re uire any fixed adjustment provision-0t. a shank having roadly stated the invention resides in the e handle end evi-ng its free end hent and sharpened for insertion through the can top at the center thereof, ands, cutting disk which is freely slidable upon the shank but is of such construction that during the process of cutting,

it will not deviate from a circuler path The novelty in. .my device resides in the l specific form of the cutting disk, this being so constructed, as stated above, that i when 1t cuts into the top of the cen, it will be guided 3.11 e circle and being also shouldered to limit the depth offthe cut.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device, Fig. '2 is a detail longitudinal sectional view threugh a ortion thereof showing the manner ix'i 'which the. cutting disk is mounted u on the shank of the device, and, Fig. 3 is e trout elevation of the cutting disk removed. from the she-rile;v

As shown in the drawings, the device comprises e shankfi provided at one of its ends with a handle 6 and having its other end sherpened to a point? tially L-shex be forced into the top of the can et the center thereof endserves as a pivot upon which the and bent to substrne' e es indicated at 8 it being understood. t let this end of the shenlst is toi device may he turned for a purpose to he presently made at parent.

A sleeve 9 1s 1 star] t-ielly at the middle thereof is a cutting l disk 10 which has a convex side and at its I edge has its other face or side cocoa-veil as l indicated at 11. in other Words the disk i has a, concave-convex. cutting edge and it is 1,

i ting disk is an annular shoulder 12 which, l when the tool is in use, travels upon the up i l per face of the can mt and limits the degree i to which the cutting edge of the disk enters owing to the nature of this cutting edge that the disk is guided in a circle during the cutting operation, the disk having its conceived. face presented in the direction of the pointed with the the can. It will he understood of course that the disk, the sleeve, end the shoulder v1 ere formed integral and that the edge of the l disk is sharpened What is claimed is-- end of the shank. Formed integral sleeve and with the conceved face of the cut- A device of the class described comprising 1" a. shock, a handle arranged at one end oi the l l sharpened and bent for engagement in e cen tog, a sleeve freely slideble u on said shank, it isk formed integral with t is sleeve at the middle thereof, said disk being substantially concavo-convexed and having a sharpened peripheral "cutting edge, and shoulder formed integral with the sleeve and with the concave face of the disk whereby the depth of out may be regulated, the shoulder being designed to travel over the upper face of the sen top being out.

' In testimony whereof, I flifiX my in presence of two witnesses.

o. FRED McCRn'RY.

signature,

shank, the other end of the shank being an annularoosely' slide ole upon the shenk 5 and formed upon the sleeve sub--- 

